Jersey City, NJ - Cops busted a burglar breaking into a synagogue and after subduing him found he had suspected cocaine on him too. Calvin Felder, 45, of Bayview Avenue, was arrested at B'nai Jacob Synagogue on West Side and Fulton avenues at 2:27 a.m. and was charged with burglary, resisting arrest, drug possession and criminal mischief. Officers responding to the synagogue on a burglar...

Manhattan, NY - A community board is sacrificing one of its few perks - parking placards. Community Board 2, which stretches from Greenwich Village to Chinatown, has voted unanimously to stop applying for the free passes. "We feel as a community that the placard system has been abused. It's our statement to the administration that we need to do our share to reign that process in," Board 2...

Pierre, SD - The South Dakota Supreme Court says a prison inmate serving a life sentence for murder can proceed with a lawsuit alleging prison officials violated his religious rights by changing the way kosher food is prepared for Jewish inmates. The high court's unanimous opinion reinstates Charles Sisney's lawsuit that seeks to require prison officials to resume the use of prepackaged kosher...

Israel - Negligence and complacency at Hadassah University Hospital permitted a child to be born with serious brain damage and irreversible disability in 1993, ruled the Jerusalem District Court. It named the hospital's director-general, Shlomo Mor-Yosef, a gynecologist, as the person responsible and awarded the child's parents some NIS 8 million in compensation, including lawyers' fees and...

India - Israeli tourist Dinah Hoshea was touring India with her husband and two children when she was killed Friday afternoon in the accident near the province of Punjab in the north of India. Her children, both in their 20s, were also injured in the accident and taken to a local hospital. Irit Shneor, Israeli consul in New Delhi, spoke to the husband but said he was in a state of serious...

The funeral for Joey Lutz, the teacher at Santa Monica High who drowned in Panama last week, will be Sunday next to his hometown of Culver City. His remains arrived at Los Angeles International Airport early Saturday morning, accompanied by his father and brother. Lutz, 25, was touring in Boca del Toro on Panama's Mosquito Coast when he was swept away by waves and riptide while standing in...

Queens, NY - The sister-in-law of slain Queens dentist Daniel Malakov was cleared late Friday of charges she threatened a key witness in the trial of his accused killer. A jury acquitted Natella Natanova following a two-day deliberation that nearly resulted in a hung jury. Natanova, 39, had been charged with approaching Malakov's brother, Gavril Malakov, months after the murder and saying, "If...